Pharmacare Act does not prescribe universal, public pharmacare.

Competing Interests: Competing interests:: Steven Morgan reports receiving funding, in 2018, from Health Canada for background research papers for the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, outside the submitted work. Matthew Herder reports receiving grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Public Health Agency of Canada, and has held a role as a board member of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, all outside the submitted work.